The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation board of trustees has named Thurston R. Moore as chairman of the board and has elected U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to serve as a trustee.

Moore is chairman emeritus and special counsel of the Richmond law firm, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, according to a news release.

Moore is president and a trustee of the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, chairman of NextUp RVA, an executive committee member and past chairman of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, and a trustee emeritus of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business Foundation.

Gorsuch was nominated as an associate justice of the Supreme Court by President Donald J. Trump and took his seat on April 10, 2017. He was appointed in 2006 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and from 2005 to 2006 served at the U.S. Justice Department as principal deputy associate attorney general. From 1995 to 2005 he worked in private practice.